Trillions of microorganisms – mainly bacteria and yeast – inhabit your intestines and make up your microbiome.
Don’t worry – most of them are generally harmless, and even sometimes beneficial. Many of these microbes help us obtain nutrients from food we normally can’t digest, and they also help protect us from opportunistic infections caused by pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria.
However, we are only beginning to understand the importance of the microbiome in maintaining our health.
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